Prompt #61--What About Love?

I'm going to admit something: I had to do a little internet searching for ideas. The threat of heavy rain (that never came) cancelled the morning walk on which I had planned on gathering some inspiration.

I ran across a prompt that challenged writers to create a love story based on all three of these quotes about love:

• You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.” (Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper)
• "We accept the love we think we deserve." (Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
• “We’re all a little weird... And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” (Robert Fulghum, True Love)

This feels a little too restrictive for the Trailbrazens. I mean, we thrive on doing our thing the way we want to do it, and it yields some pretty kickass writing. Well very kickass writing. But, it did get the wheels spinning, and the title to a popular Heart song in the 80's kept playing in my head: "What About Love?" Here's the lyrics and even a video if you want a refresher. It was hardly my favorite band and not my favorite song from this duo, but I think the question is worth answering--in your own kickassy Trailbrazen way, of course.

Just tossing some ideas out:

• Find your own quote about love to springboard song lyrics, a poem, a short story, a micro (or not-so-micro) memoir, an essay.
• Use your favorite lyrics about love to inspire a piece of writing.
• Use a situation you've been in or a pivotal experience you've had and write about how love in any form would have changed the outcome.
• Conjure up a perfect world where love rules supreme and write about how a day-in-the-life of the character of your choosing would look in this world.

Happy writing!